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The Rainbow Trail
by GREY, Zane
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
Nelson 2/- series. Small octavo. Color pictorial dust jacket (unclipped; nicks; large chips). Very good. 381 pages + 3 pages of publisher's advertisements. No other signatures or bookplates. Small New Zealand bookseller's label on the front pastedown. With a full-page inscription on front free endpaper by Zane Grey's son, Romer: "Zane Grey Estate, Altadena Calif. July 19, 1970. In the other book I said one thing. In this I might say I just re read these and believe them, as I have ridden every inch of ground in this perhaps there is hope, Romer Zane Grey." Zane Grey's "thin" blindstamp on front free endpaper.
Synopsis
From the book:Shefford halted his tired horse and gazed with slowly realizing eyes. A league-long slope of sage rolled and billowed down to Red Lake, a dry red basin, denuded and glistening, a hollow in the desert, a lonely and desolate door to the vast, wild, and broken upland beyond. All day Shefford had plodded onward with the clear horizon-line a thing unattainable; and for days before that he had ridden the wild bare flats and climbed the rocky desert benches. The great colored reaches and steps had led endlessly onward and upward through dim and deceiving distance. A hundred miles of desert travel, with its mistakes and lessons and intimations, had not prepared him for what he now saw. He beheld what seemed a world that knew only magnitude. Wonder and awe fixed his gaze, and thought remained aloof. Then that dark and unknown northland flung a menace at him. An irresistible call had drawn him to this seamed and peaked border of Arizona, this broken battlemented wilderness of Utah upland; and at first sight they frowned upon him, as if to warn him not to search for what lay hidden beyond the ranges.
Reviews
On Oct 22 2020, a reader said:
The Rainbow Trail brings closure to the novel Riders of the Purple Sage. It answers the question, What happened to Jane and Lassiter? But more importantly, it opens up a new series of events and characters that a reader can identify with and become emotionally involved with. Zane Grey knew how to get the reader hooked and then keep him on the line to the finish, just like he knew how to fish for world record sharks in the ocean. With the back drop being the desert and plateau and canyon country of Utah and Arizona which Zane Grey could so vividly and memorable describe in words no other author has managed to emulate, he tells a story so unique and compelling that I am sure when it was published no one could resist to read it, especially since it brought Riders to a conclusion. Standing alone, it holds up just as well today. A defrocked minister comes west after hearing the story of Fay Larkin, and Jane and Lassiter, from two of his parishioners and decides to hunt for them, and in so doing find himself and his God. The twists and turns he faces in his search make for good mystery and good romance. I proudly recommend it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 304110
- Title
- The Rainbow Trail
- Author
- GREY, Zane
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
- Bookseller catalogs
- ZANE GREY;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Houle Rare Books & Autographs
Biblio member since 2009
Palm Springs, California
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2699 North Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262By appointment only.
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